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Title: ICBC protest rally - Victoria legislature
Description: The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the
Show moreThe newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible for ICBC.
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Date: 1976-02-13

Title: ICBC protest rally and car cavalcade - Simon Fraser University
Description: The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the
Show moreThe newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible for ICBC.
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Date: 1976-02-08

Title: DERA [Downtown Eastside Residents Association] demonstration outside Rent Review Commission - 1170 Hornby
Date: 1975-05-25

Title: CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] demonstration, Vancouver city hall
Description: Rally of 2,500 people outside Vancouver city hall, organized by CUPE to demand that municipal employers return to the bargain table and address demand for wage parity with provincial government employees. Photo shows Dave Werlin, secretary of CUPE Local 1004, representing City of Vancouver outside workers.
Date: 1975-03-21

Title: Rally against Kerkhoff project - Roy Gautier
Description: Photograph shows B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council president Roy Gautier speaking.
Date: 1987-05-23

Title: Solidarity Coalition march and rally against Socred budget
Description: Close to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve
Show moreClose to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve Gidora at rally in Queen Elizabeth Plaza.
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Date: 1983-10-15

Title: Solidarity Coalition march and rally against Socred budget
Description: Close to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve
Show moreClose to 70,000 people march in downtown street surrounding the Hotel Vancouver site of the Social Credit convention as Operation Solidarity and the Solidarity Coalition mount the largest demonstration to date against the government's twenty-six pieces of legislation. Photograph shows participants, left to right: Charan Gill, Gord Savard and Steve Gidora at rally in Queen Elizabeth Plaza.
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Date: 1983-10-15

Title: Trade union demonstration against Sandman Inn construction (1000 people)
Description: Building trades and other unions picket the construction site for the Sandman Inn at Georgia and Beatty streets in Vancouver which was being built non-union by the Gaglardi family. The rally also highlighted the labour movement's demand for changes to the labour code to permit information picketing. Photograph shows BC and Yukon Building Trades
Show moreBuilding trades and other unions picket the construction site for the Sandman Inn at Georgia and Beatty streets in Vancouver which was being built non-union by the Gaglardi family. The rally also highlighted the labour movement's demand for changes to the labour code to permit information picketing. Photograph shows BC and Yukon Building Trades Council secretary Cy Stairs speaking to the rally.
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Date: 1975-04-11

Title: CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] demonstration, Vancouver city hall
Description: Rally of 2,500 people outside Vancouver city hall, organized by CUPE to demand that municipal employers return to the bargain table and address demand for wage parity with provincial government employees. Photo shows Dave Werlin, secretary of CUPE Local 1004, representing City of Vancouver outside workers, addressing the rally.
Date: 1975-03-21

Title: DERA [Downtown Eastside Residents Association] demonstration outside Rent Review Commission - 1170 Hornby
Date: 1975-05-25

Title: DERA [Downtown Eastside Residents Association] demonstration outside Rent Review Commission - 1170 Hornby
Date: 1975-05-25

Title: Trade union demonstration against Sandman Inn construction (1000 people)
Description: Building trades and other unions picket the construction site for the Sandman Inn at Georgia and Beatty streets in Vancouver which was being built non-union by the Gaglardi family. The rally also highlighted the labour movement's demand for changes to the labour code to permit information picketing.
Date: 1975-04-11

Title: DERA [Downtown Eastside Residents Association] demonstration outside Rent Review Commission - 1170 Hornby
Date: 1975-05-25

Title: Picket line - Squamish band - under Lions Gate Bridge
Description: Squamish band members stage protest on Lions Gate Bridge to highlight longstanding issue of cutoff lands removed from reserves five decades earlier. They later took their protest to the provincial legislature, joining bands across the province in pressing for land claims negotiations.
Date: 1975-06-03

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